Gordon Getty News

The following events have been announced at Lincoln Center.

The League of American Orchestras today announced the receipt of a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation to administer a re-granting program that supports orchestras in deepening their involvement with their communities.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon "Scholarship for the Arts." One winner in each category will be presented with a check for $10,000 towards their college education.

Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon will join soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin in an evening that features Gordon Getty's The White Election, a song cycle based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Ms. Nixon will read selections from Emily Dickinson's letters. The event will take place on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (Samuel B. & David Rose Building, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan).

Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon will join soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin in an evening that features Gordon Getty's The White Election, a song cycle based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Ms. Nixon will read selections from Emily Dickinson's letters. The event will take place on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (Samuel B. & David Rose Building, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan).

The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas will present new episodes of their acclaimed Keeping Score television series on New York's WNET/THIRTEEN on Saturday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 2 at 2:00 p.m. In a year marking the centenary of both the death of Gustav Mahler and the birth of the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestra's Keeping Score project focuses on the enigmatic composer with two one-hour documentary-style episodes, two live-performance programs (full details follow), new Mahler-related content at http://www.keepingscore.org and a 13-part national radio series. The Keeping Score project is a natural outgrowth of the San Francisco Symphony's almost century-long commitment to make classical music more accessible and meaningful to people of all ages and musical backgrounds.

The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas will present new episodes of their acclaimed Keeping Score television series on New York's WNET/THIRTEEN on Saturday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 2 at 2:00 p.m. In a year marking the centenary of both the death of Gustav Mahler and the birth of the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestra's Keeping Score project focuses on the enigmatic composer with two one-hour documentary-style episodes, two live-performance programs (full details follow), new Mahler-related content at http://www.keepingscore.org and a 13-part national radio series. The Keeping Score project is a natural outgrowth of the San Francisco Symphony's almost century-long commitment to make classical music more accessible and meaningful to people of all ages and musical backgrounds.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced last night the three Bay Area high school winners of The Steve Silver Foundation & Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.'

Chanticleer sings from the heart about passion and pain, joy and eternity - in other words - love. Music by Whitacre, Mahler, Strauss, Daniel-Lesur, and Paulus explore the sensual, the spiritual and the sexy sides of our favorite (and most tormenting) emotion.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.'

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.'

The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas will present new episodes of their acclaimed Keeping Score television series on New York's WNET/THIRTEEN on Saturday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 2 at 2:00 p.m.

The inaugural Tully Scope Festival presents the Lincoln Center debut of Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra performing selections from his recent album, Central Market, which was described by The New York Times as "kaleidoscopic…rating on the scales of human achievement and imagination [by] subverting rock's usual ingredients."

Following the critical acclaim of last fall's inaugural White Light Festival, Lincoln Center is poised to launch White Light's sister festival, Tully Scope, February 22 through March 18.

The inaugural Tully Scope Festival presents the Lincoln Center debut of Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra performing selections from his recent album, Central Market, which was described by The New York Times as "kaleidoscopic…rating on the scales of human achievement and imagination [by] subverting rock's usual ingredients."

Following the critical acclaim of last fall's inaugural White Light Festival, Lincoln Center is poised to launch White Light's sister festival, Tully Scope, February 22 through March 18.

Due to a delay in issuing visas for musicians traveling from New Delhi to New York, the performances of the closing presentation of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, the U.S. premiere of Roysten Abel's extraordinary music-theater work The Manganiyar Seduction, have been postponed to Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Performances will take place as planned in the Rose Theater, in Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th Street), at 7:30 PM.

Indian director Roysten Abel, founder of the Indian Shakespeare Company, and director of such productions as the award-winning Othello a play in black and white and The Spirit of Anne Frank, makes his U.S. directing debut at Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival with the U.S. premiere of The Manganiyar Seduction-a stunning musical performance by 38 bardic Muslim minstrels from northern India-at the Rose Theater on November 17 and 18.

Due to a delay in issuing visas for musicians traveling from New Delhi to New York, the performances of the closing presentation of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, the U.S. premiere of Roysten Abel's extraordinary music-theater work The Manganiyar Seduction, have been postponed to Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Performances will take place as planned in the Rose Theater, in Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th Street), at 7:30 PM.

A major highlight of Lincoln Center's inaugural White Light Festival this fall is the U.S. premiere of 'Sutra', a modern dance work by acclaimed Belgian/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui featuring 17 monks from the original Shaolin Temple in three performances November 2-4 in the Rose Theater. In the first true collaboration between Western artists and the revered Buddhist institution, Sutra combines the graceful, gravity-defying athleticism of the Shaolin monks with Cherkaoui's signature blend of modern ballet, African dance, and hip-hop.